frepnog:meanmutton: As someone in his 30s who is actually trying to have a baby, the headline makes exactly zero sense.

That said -- we live in a time where there are a bazillion different forms of birth control, from barrier to hormonal to chemical methods plus readily available abortion and easy adoption options (we're a country with such a demand for babies to adopt that people spend years and tens of thousands of dollars to adopt them from other countries). If you don't want a baby, it's rather trivially easy NOT to have one.

the issue is two fold - the ignorant face barriers to education. the educated face farked up emotions and personality changes when on birth control. so you have one group that doesn't use it because they don't know any better and one group that would use it but hates how it makes you feel.

personally, I despise the woman that my wife becomes when she is on the pill. she is a totally different person and very much not the person I fell in love with.

birth control is great, but the hormone stuff creates people that are just not themselves.

and can we all agree that condoms suck? I would rather just jerk it.

Maybe when she is on the pill it makes her realise who she married and the waves of disgust coming from her is what turns you off.

grokca:frepnog: meanmutton: As someone in his 30s who is actually trying to have a baby, the headline makes exactly zero sense.

That said -- we live in a time where there are a bazillion different forms of birth control, from barrier to hormonal to chemical methods plus readily available abortion and easy adoption options (we're a country with such a demand for babies to adopt that people spend years and tens of thousands of dollars to adopt them from other countries). If you don't want a baby, it's rather trivially easy NOT to have one.

the issue is two fold - the ignorant face barriers to education. the educated face farked up emotions and personality changes when on birth control. so you have one group that doesn't use it because they don't know any better and one group that would use it but hates how it makes you feel.

personally, I despise the woman that my wife becomes when she is on the pill. she is a totally different person and very much not the person I fell in love with.

birth control is great, but the hormone stuff creates people that are just not themselves.

and can we all agree that condoms suck? I would rather just jerk it.

Maybe when she is on the pill it makes her realise who she married and the waves of disgust coming from her is what turns you off.

/I keed.

Studies have found that women tend to find (for lack of better words) not the best partners when they're on birth control. And it can fark with moods etc.

/Never dated anyone while they were on the pill//Always made sure I was safe///Now engaged and snipped////AWESOME!

Legios:grokca: frepnog: meanmutton: As someone in his 30s who is actually trying to have a baby, the headline makes exactly zero sense.

That said -- we live in a time where there are a bazillion different forms of birth control, from barrier to hormonal to chemical methods plus readily available abortion and easy adoption options (we're a country with such a demand for babies to adopt that people spend years and tens of thousands of dollars to adopt them from other countries). If you don't want a baby, it's rather trivially easy NOT to have one.

the issue is two fold - the ignorant face barriers to education. the educated face farked up emotions and personality changes when on birth control. so you have one group that doesn't use it because they don't know any better and one group that would use it but hates how it makes you feel.

personally, I despise the woman that my wife becomes when she is on the pill. she is a totally different person and very much not the person I fell in love with.

birth control is great, but the hormone stuff creates people that are just not themselves.

and can we all agree that condoms suck? I would rather just jerk it.

Maybe when she is on the pill it makes her realise who she married and the waves of disgust coming from her is what turns you off.

/I keed.

Studies have found that women tend to find (for lack of better words) not the best partners when they're on birth control. And it can fark with moods etc.

/Never dated anyone while they were on the pill//Always made sure I was safe///Now engaged and snipped////AWESOME!

i met my wife when she was not on the pill. she started taking it like a year after we met to help regulate her periods.

it changed her personality, it killed her sex drive, she was like a completely different person.

Good looks (which mean symmetrical, average looks) are a sign of genetic quality. The uglier you are, the more defective genes you carry and thus the lower your fertility and fitness are. Good-looking people are advertising their quality as prospective mates (unless the good looks are all trickery--a lot of the religious opposition to make-up and wigs, for example, was argued on the basis of false advertising--older women made themselves look younger--thus falsifying their fitness for breeding, while the fugly made themselves look more attractive, thus falsely advertising the quality of offspring you would be getting with them as mates).

America's obsession with teeth-whitening, straightening, cosmetic surgery, botox, etc., is basically a consequence of an obsession with salesmanship (or saleswomanship) and thus with misleading advertising. Like the shop floorwalker in the old English cartoon put it, "It don't pay you to sell the customer what they want, I pay you to sell them the goods I have."

But this salesmanship, in evolutionary terms, is a type of advertising that existed long before humans. It is "sexual advertising of fitness and fertility". Even animals do this, and they also cheat if possible.

Ironically, this might mean that women (and men) can use attractiveness as a warning in the same way poisonous animals are brightly coloured and richly patterned. Beauty can drive away the beast who does NOT want a fertile mate.